Watch House And Churchyard, Old Parish Church, Glencorse is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 2001. Kirk, boundary wall.
Watch House And Churchyard, Old Parish Church, Glencorse
- WRENN ID
- nether-keep-jackdaw
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 2001
- Type
- Kirk, boundary wall
- OS grid reference
- NT 244 630
- Coordinates
- 55.85471, -3.20775
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Watch House and churchyard of the Old Parish Church in Glencorse date from the earlier 18th century and have undergone some alterations. The Watch House is a single-storey structure built from sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, accompanied by a stone boundary wall.
On the south elevation, there is a later door and a blocked rectangular window to the right, both featuring stone lintels. The east elevation is blank, with a gable head that includes a stack and modern security lighting at the gable head. The north elevation has a coursed ashlar rear with no features and a memorial wall adjacent to it. The west elevation was not seen.
The original glazing pattern and roof have been lost. The interior was not seen.
The kirkyard features numerous "trade" gravestones and sepulchral monuments, along with rubble boundary walls topped with copes.
Local climate
Watch House And Churchyard, Old Parish Church, Glencorse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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